First coffee, then a bowel movement. Then the Muse joins me. - Gore Vidal

The malice of a true Christian attempting to destroy an opponent is something unique in the world. No other religion ever considered it necessary to destroy others because they did not share the same beliefs. At worst, another man's belief might inspire amusement or contempt—the Egyptians and their animal gods, for instance. Yet those who worshipped the Bull did not try to murder those who worshipped the Snake, or to convert them by force from Snake to Bull. No evil ever entered the world quite so vividly or on such a vast scale as Christianity did.

Heroes must see to their own fame. No one else will.

I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.